No love from the Fish Gods

[bvpatten]

I waited until after the weekend to make a trip to Yuba, thinking better weather and less boats. We got up early, the wife made us breakfast and other than a quick stop we were on our way for a beautiful day of pike fishing. I was blissfully unaware that a young man was coming home from working a graveyard shift. Unaware that is until he nodded off and tagged the rear end of my boat trailer as I was doing 70 mph near the Mona turn off. I managed to keep the trailer under control and get it off the freeway. Nobody was hurt and my boat suffered no damage but the trailer is a loss. The impact folded up my swing away and surge brake like a pretzel. It also bent my ball forward to about a 45 deg. angle.. SOOooo we hit the shore @ about 11;30 and fished until 5pm without even a single follow. I knew dam well I should have sacrificed a virgin before this trip!
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[albinotrout]

Bummer on the trailer. [] Hopefully your season will get better from there.
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[TubeDude]

"I knew dam well I should have sacrificed a virgin before this trip!"

[#0000FF]Careful. Those are on the endangered species list.

Sorry about your "encounter". Even sorrier about your poor returns at Yuba. We anglers are eternal optimists...always expecting we will be the ones to overcome the odds and catch lots of fish when nobody else is...or should be.

Lots of fishing left in this year...if the lakes don't dry up. Hope your next trip is more productive.
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[MasterDaad]

[#0000ff]Careful. Those are on the endangered species list.

[/#0000ff][#0000ff][size 3][#000000]And Utah is designated as "critical habitat" [][/#000000][/size][/#0000ff]

Well done keeping the trailer under control and landing with just property damage.

I'm hoping Yuba warms up for pike this year. I made just one trip there last year and I'd like to find more excuses to go this year.

If the fish show up!